I was recently making a quest where the player interacted with a talking troll. Thankfully, talking trolls, chickens, dragons (obviously), and anything else is possible - it just takes a little bit of extra work. If you don't follow these steps, your creature will only be able to say Misc Tab dialogue lines - like 'Hello' or 'Goodbye'. These allow your creature to participate in scenes and player dialogue.

Note: The creature will also have no lipsync unless the creature has the appropriate data, which I don't know how to add and I hear is a lot of tedious work. I'd recommend you just settle with no lipsync.

This tutorial covers a few ways to achieve certain functions in the CK. I've focused on issues that are relatively common, or ones that are usually left unanswered, especially ones that I struggled with myself. You can view this as a list of smaller tutorials on fairly small subjects. I'll expand this post as I find more problems on the Skyrim Nexus Forums (modding only).

The included tutorials are on the following subjects: Making An NPC Attack in Dialogue, How to Change Attack Speed for a Weapon, Creating a New Combat Style, Making a One-Time Event Via Script, and Adding Items to a Container Via Script. You can find a tutorial on creating compatibility patches elsewhere.

This tutorial will teach you how to make a scene in which a marker will speak as another NPC, when NOT in direct dialogue with the player (see Talking Activators for things like the DB door). An example of this is when you pick up Meridia's Beacon in game, and Meridia speaks to you. The actual actor of Meridia is nowhere near you - in fact, she's disabled. An xMarker is actually speaking with her voice. This will allow you to have the NPC speak ANYWHERE you want, without having to move the NPC around in case they need to be elsewhere.

In order for radiant quests to be able to appropriately select locations, dungeons must first be set up correctly. This involves marking various references in your dungeon, creating a location, and adding keywords/parent locations to the location. It is pretty simple, but very essential to making a dungeon that works with radiant quests.

Locations should also be set up for interiors, with parent locations and keywords. There are also a few RefTypes for use in interiors (such as shops), but less so. Still should be set up for interiors. That said, this focuses on dungeons and does not talk about the appropriate RefTypes for interiors. They'll have to be looked at individually - see under WorldData>LocationRefTypes.

This tutorial will go over how you can make a triggerbox turn into an activator like a lever. It will be invisible, and allows you to, say - place an invisible trigger over the well static in Whiterun square. Then, you could make the well "activatable" without making the well itself an activator.

This tutorial is quite simple, and will cover how you can fill properties. Properties are variables that can be filled with values externally - so, you could make a property reference Nazeem. Variables can't do this without some function or property that contains the value already. Properties are useless, however, without being filled. Without being filled, they don't mean anything. So, this tutorial will tell you how to make them mean something.

This tutorial assumes you've already got a script with properties set up.

This tutorial will guide you through creating a custom follower, on a separate framework than the vanilla one. This will stop your follower from being automatically managed by a mod like EFF, or AFT. You can also add more features to your follower easily, as well as the framework being more flexible.

This tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of the Creation Kit, and how to set up scripts. No need to write them, but you should be able to edit a few names and such to fit your follower. This could be used for a framework but the tutorial is set up for a single follower.

This is a redesigned tutorial based off of Mofakin's original one, by Jac. Morte is Jac's custom follower, a proof of concept and fully voiced follower.

This tutorial explains how to add a dialog scene between two NPCs. Dialog scenes are where two NPCs talk to each other without input from the player, like when Ysolda and Carlotta talk about Carlotta’s produce. Note that dialog scenes only run whenever the initiating NPC is walking, but not while actively following the player. If you want your follower(s) to initiate scene dialog, you will need to insure that their follower package has the dialog scene checkbox enabled. Written entirely by Jac.

﻿In this tutorial, we'll go over how you can make a destructible object. This could be a door you can break down, a pillar, or any object at all. In-game examples of this are the barricades from the Civil War that you have to break and spider cobwebs you can destroy. They can help add interesting mechanics to your dungeons, and they're not all that hard to make when you get the hang of it.

Thanks to wellpapp on the destruction part. Without him I wouldn't have known to tick disable object and I might have smashed my keyboard out of frustration.

This is a tutorial on how to set up an activator that will run a script when a specific spell hits it. This could be used for anything from puzzles to simple (or not so simple) doors. I'll go over three examples of it's possible usage - a door opened by a spell, a pillar which spawns an enemy when you shout at it, and a door which will close itself if open and open itself if closed if you use a spell OR shout at it. Original concept and script from this thread.

This tutorial assumes you have a basic knowledge of Papyrus, and States.

Thanks to hypno88 for creating this tutorial. He is the author of mods like Wolf Follower - Dynamic pet. This tutorial is more for intermediate or above modders, requiring a knowledge of scripting and quest design. Everything in italics was written by me, and everything else was written by hypno or edited by me.This tutorial explains how to add a new stat to one of the pages in the vanilla stats menu. It requires SKSE to function, but the way it's implemented means that it will only run if the user is currently running SKSE. In other words, it won't add SKSE dependency to your mod, just an extra feature for those users who do use SKSE.

Note: This can be applied to any reference. But this tutorial only covers actors.This is a tutorial by egocarib, the creator of mods like Enchanted Arsenal and Enchanting Awakened. Any text not in italics is either the author's words, or the author's words slightly modified by me. This tutorial assumes you have a basic knowledge of scripting, and a rudimentary knowledge of quest design.This tutorial will teach you how to use a quest and aliases to detect actors of a certain type near to the player. It can be applied in many different ways, but is very useful and pretty simple.

This is a tutorial by DavideMitra, author of House of the Redguard and the WIP House of the Redguard II. Nicely done by Davide. Anything not written in italics is in the author's own words, though possibly edited by me for greater clarity. This tutorial assumes that you have a basic knowledge of the landscape editor and level design.This tutorial will teach you how to create completely exterior caves and dungeons that look good, and how to avoid the usual issues with no-loading screen dungeons like performance, lighting, and looks.